via @CleanTechnica

Th good news is that if you look at the 2 degree carbon budget, current emissions could be maintained for 27 years at the lax 50% chance level of Copenhagen. That means 50 years with a straight-line decline to zero at the end in 2065. A 2% straight-line annual decline in emissions looks feasible eyeballing current trends, though I’d like to see professional scenarios. It might even be possible with President Trump: he has no real plan to stop the energy transition, and by now even a bonfire of American regulations would not stop the revolution, or derail the Paris agreement. Who would show up for his renegotiation? Or buy the coal he would like to mine? The problem is the more demanding, but much safer, 1.5 degree target. Even a drastic 5% annual drop in emissions does not stretch the carbon budget to a decade – followed by an eternity of zero net emissions, remember. We a...